different between horizontal vs crossbeam
horizontal
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French horizontal.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?h????z?nt?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?h?????z??nt?l/
Adjective
horizontal (comparative more horizontal, superlative most horizontal)
- perpendicular to the vertical; parallel to the plane of the horizon; level, flat
- (marketing) relating to horizontal markets
- (archaic) pertaining to the horizon
- 1667: As when the Sun new ris'n / Looks through the Horizontal misty Air — John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 594-5
- (wine tasting) involving wines of the same vintages but from different wineries
- (music) Of an interval: having the two notes sound successively.
- Synonyms: linear, melodic
- Antonym: vertical
Antonyms
- vertical
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
horizontal (plural horizontals)
- a horizontal component of a structure
- (geology) horizon
- a Tasmanian shrub or small tree whose main trunk tends to lean over and grow horizontally, Anodopetalum biglandulosum
Translations
Anagrams
- notorhizal
Albanian
Etymology
Probably from English horizontal; the -al adjectival suffix is neither native to Albanian, nor was it borrowed from Latin earlier on.
Adjective
horizontal m (feminine horizontale)
- horizontal
Related terms
- horizont
Asturian
Adjective
horizontal (epicene, plural horizontales)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
Related terms
- horizonte
French
Alternative forms
- horisontal
Etymology
Derived from Latin horiz?n (“horizon”) + -?lis (suffix forming adjectives from nouns).
Pronunciation
- (mute h) IPA(key): /?.?i.z??.tal/
- Homophones: horisontal, horisontale, horisontales, horizontale, horizontales
Adjective
horizontal (feminine singular horizontale, masculine plural horizontaux, feminine plural horizontales)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
Derived terms
- horizontalement
Related terms
- horizon
Further reading
- “horizontal” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Adjective
horizontal m or f (plural horizontais)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
Derived terms
- horizontalmente
Related terms
- horizonte
German
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?l
Adjective
horizontal (not comparable)
- horizontal
- Synonyms: waagrecht, waagerecht
- Antonyms: vertikal, senkrecht
Declension
Derived terms
- Horizontale
Further reading
- “horizontal” in Duden online
Portuguese
Adjective
horizontal m or f (plural horizontais, not comparable)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
Derived terms
- horizontalmente
Related terms
- horizonte
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /o?i?on?tal/, [o.?i.?õn??t?al]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /o?ison?tal/, [o.?i.sõn??t?al]
Adjective
horizontal (plural horizontales)
- horizontal
- Antonym: vertical
- landscape (a mode of printing where the horizontal sides are longer than the vertical sides; in smartphones)
- Antonym: vertical
Derived terms
- horizontalmente
Related terms
- horizonte
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crossbeam
English
Etymology
cross +? beam
Noun
crossbeam (plural crossbeams)
- A horizontal structural beam that runs perpendicular to the primary support beams; a girder.
- The workman hung a light from a crossbeam between the main joists.
- (nautical) A beam laid across the bitts, to which the cable is fastened when riding at anchor.
Translations
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